The Osceola times., 1887-08-06
mr. Riverside Iron ana Steel work. at

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fHr Riverside iron and Steel work. at
Cincinnati, w. p. Harris, superintendent,
and A. l.. p. Gasrs, secretary, have as
signed 10 John :. Conners. liabilities,
S200, 900.
AN accident on the Bai1moe & Ohio
railway, near Cumberland, d., on the
2sth, killed an engineer and . fireman.
Two pleasure yachts were capsized on
the English coast on the 18th, and ten peo
Pile were drowned.
GFoRaK ADAMS, Of Mexico, Mo-, has
sued the Wabash Western railway for 49,
600 for personal injuries.
CASUALTIES by the Hopedale lIll.) dis
aster now foot up ten killed and twenty
five injured.
A COVERED wagon was run into by q
train on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Ridrewood Station, Pa, on the 2sth, and
four persons were killed. They were
Amanda Fritz, aged thirty 1.-TWO, ,and Hettie
Fritz and her two children, aged eighteen
and three months, respectively.
AwISD storm with rain, on the 2sth, de-
stroyed part of the grand stand, unroofed
a portion Of the stables, blew down fences
and prostrated the telegraph and telephone
1
natl, causing 5000 to $4,000 damages. No
person was injured.
A rELEGgAM was received at the execu-
tive department, at Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 2sth, from the city marshal Of Wind.
sor, o., stating that be had arrested a man
who was supposed to be McCabe, the es.
capod Wayne County murderer, who was
under sentence Of death. A description of
McCabe was forwarded.
UMRs. TRuGo and two children were
burned to death in a Chicago tenement fire
on the goth. Several others were badly in
jured, some fatally.
DBy an accident on the Baltimore & Ohio
railway at West Newton, Pa, on the 10th,
q fireman named Orbin was killed and En-.
gineer Gilland was fatally injured.
c. HKSINoER, aged eighty-seven, Of
Brooklyn, shielded on the 20tb, by shoot
ing himself through the head. He had
been troubled with softening Of the brain
for some time.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON received Il
telegram on the Goth from Passed Assistant
Surgeon Guteras, dated Key West, saying
that there had been l72 cases Of yellow
feveK and IL deaths TO date.
DANIEL SBEEBAN, a nephew of Mr.. Shee-
has been arrested at Killarney under the
Grimes act. He is charged with assaulting
bailiifs.
DANIEL Lyons, the murderer Of Athlete
Quinn, arrived in New York on the 29th
from Pittsburgh. Subsequently be waived
examination and was held for the grand
jury.
1T has been discovered that Calvin Rigg,
a school.tax collector for the town of Con-
shohocken, Pa, from 1882 20 1885, is short
in his accounts for the years Issi-5 To the
amount Of $4,000.
A DARING and carefully.planned robbery
was perpetrated at the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy passenger depot at Des
Moines, Ia, on the 10Th, one of the light
fingered gentry getting away with the
money in the safe during the temporary
absence Of the ticket-seller.
THE Rockland cafe and large clambake
pavilion connected with the Hotel Nantas-
ket, at Nantasket Beach, Mass, burned on
the evening Of the 10Th. The great hotel
itself was saved with great difficulty.
Loss, S25, 200; insured.
THREE men were seriously injured by q
Premature blast at Burden furnace, Hud.
son, N. Y, on the 10th. They were still
alive at last accounts. with faint hopes Of
recovery. The accident was the result Of
their own carelessness.
AN elevator in the Bremen shoe and slip
per factory In NJ. Louis fell, on the even.
Ing Of the 29th, with load of passengers.
Two Of them, Alex. Farrar and Annie
Moran, We're fatally hurt.
JOSEPH RlCB, farmer, returning homs
from Richmond, Ind, on the Wh, In q
wagon, together with his wife, baby and
wife's mother, attempted to cross the rail
road track ahead OF a passenger train. Az
result, Rich, his baby aud his wife's
mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich
terribly mangled.
LOOMS DEXTER was killed and about q
hundred persons injured during the prog
ress of a storm at David City, Neb., on the
SOth. Property also suffered severely.
Two persons we've killed and number
| injured by railway accident near Con.
| cord, N. H., on the 30th,
THE Columbian Bank of Phiiadelphia
failed to open it, doors ON the 30th. The
collapse is attributed TO the lves-Garrett
deal failing 10 be consummated.
THE plateglass fronts OF several places
of business in Fort Dodge, Ia, conducted
| by leading Prohibtionists, were smashed
| by unknown parties on the night of the
goth.
A SERIOUS famine is raging in Adana
| Turkey, and the surrounding neighbor
| hood, occasioned by the drought that has
| prevailed during the present summer.
DURING recent hurricane on the At
lantic, n Mr.. Kemp, OF Illinois, was quite
seriously injured on the steamship Etruria
on which he was passenger.
NINETEEN persons died in New York on
the 3lst without medical attendance, the
largest number in one day on record.
DURING heavy thunder storm on tn,
evening Of the alst one OF the tanks Of the
| Atlantic OIL refinery at Point Breeze. Phil
adelphia, was struck by lightning. The oil
consumed is variously estimated at from
100 TO 1900 barrels.
The New York SaA states that s215 5,O0G
has disappeared from the safe deposi,
vault OF the estate OF the late William Lot
timer. jerome l.. Hill executor Of the es-
tate, admits that he lost the money in
speculation. He was interested in the Bal
timore 4 Ohio deal, and lost cy its falling
through.
MI-CkLJN NEOIS.
On the 2lth the sixth anniversary meet
ing of the National Temperance Society
opened at Ocean Grove, n. j., to continue
five days.